Taliban Says No to Polio Vaccine Meant for 300,000 Children - Fearing it’s Anti-Muslim Plot

[trotsky]

The World Health Organization is reporting on an emergency health crisis about to erupt in Northern Pakistan, as Taliban militants are blocking attempts by UN doctors to treat over 300,000 innocent children with the polio vaccine. Dr Nima Abid says children must be vaccinated during the first three months of the year, when the virus is at its lowest, for it to be the most effective. Taliban militants and clerics are using roving loudspeakers and underground radio stations, terrifying the local populace into believing the vaccine causes infertility and is part of a US anti-Muslim conspiracy.

This volatile situation is particularly disturbing, as UN doctors risk their lives to inoculate thousands of children against a contagious insidious disease, which is easily prevented with a simple vaccine. A roadside bomb killed a UN doctor in the tribal region of Bajaur in 2007, during a similar campaign by Islamist militants to block vaccinations.

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Well, at least American anti-vaxers have some International allies. Spreading fear and doubt and crazy conspiracy theories!

[Maccagirl]

1. They are evil.

That is all.

[Chulanowa]

4. Ignorance and evil are frequent travelling companions

but aren't the same thing. The Taliban are some ignorant sons of bitches, led primarily by ignorant sons of bitches who grew up in hole-in-the-dirt refugee camps during Afghanistan's war with Russia and the ensuing civil war. Basically, the Taliban is what happens when all you give feral children is a religious book to read.

Just imagine if they'd been given a VCR manual or something

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. The West's indiscriminate killing of civilians has a price - lack of trust

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"Collateral Damage" ain't in the Eastern societies vocabulary.

Kill my kid, wife, husband, brother, sister, friend - etc.,

and I'm gonna trust you???

I don't think so

DOH!!

[Warpy]

3. They need to communicate with the religious nuts

in Africa who started this whole idiotic disinformation campaign. After a polio epidemic last year, they finally relented and admitted that maybe vaccinating children and allowing them to live was worth the risk from an evil western plot against their precious manhood.

[depakid]

5. Without this ignorance, we might eradicate polio once and for all

There aren't that many pockets of wild type left.